Erika Fuchs, 1906-2005

The Disney translator and editor Erika Fuchs died on Friday in Munich. She was 98 years old. Fuchs was the first and longtime editor in chief of the German edition of Mickey Mouse. Her extremely lively and inventive approach to translation -- changing references, tweaking names, and employing for the Disney comics a descriptive style of speech that was neither high-brow nor guttural -- not only allowed the comics to be popular in Germany and made Fuchs a much-appreciated part of Disney comics history but broke rules of language in ways that are now common in German slang. If I'm reading the obituaries correctly, she served in her position from 1951 to 1988.

Other major media obituaries for Fuchs can be found here and here. A great photo of Fuchs with the late, legendary Carl Barks can be found here. A wikipedia entry touching on her contributions to language can be found here.

My thanks to Bjorn Wederhake for the information.
 
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